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Posted on 09/10/2009 3:57:23 PM PDT by maggief
BALTIMORE — The nonprofit housing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute.
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Beck predicted this. ACORN employees go right under the train when expedient.
Maybe they quit due to a better offer from Van Jones.
acorn needs to be abolished completely
At this rate the whole organization will be under the train eventually.
From your post to God’s ears!
So now they are merely Acorn volunteers right ?
Overqualified for ACORN.
so they say.......
Stunts.
What happened to the the term “whistle blower?”
ACORN fires 2 workers seen in hidden-camera footage advising woman posing as prostitute
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336752/posts
Fired isn’t good enough. Prison, is a fine start, followed by an independent prosecutor to investigate Acorn.
Bumping both threads... (Diff sources)
was the one who was going to prepare tax papers licensed and does she pay taxes on her collected “fees”?
Besides the mistrust Americans have about Obamacare, we have even more distrust of ACORN that anyone reports. IMHO the czars, amnesty cap and trade and the SEIU (not necessarily in that order) round out some of the major concerns we have with this administration. I didn’t add transparency or bi-partisanship because, despite Obama’s claim of it, neither exist under this administration.
I wonder if any Fox News reporters will ask John McCain what he thinks of this scandal?
oh and i guess that makes everything alright again
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/conyers-abandons-plan-probe-acorn/
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea.
The Souuullll Traiiiiiinnnnn
They’ll just go back to their jobs at HUD or HHS, I’m sure.
“”that undercover teams attempted similar stunts at three other ACORN offices. “”
I think what they said was - “other film crews had tried it before.” As tho’ the undercover gal and guy brought a film crew with them! Those ditzes weren’t smart enough to know their own names so there very well could have been a film crew there! They’ll get away with whatever story (stories) they can conjure up.
Wah, wah, wah, everyone is picking on poor little acorn. Didn’t look like it took very much to smear them. Actually, looked like they were pickin up the mud and smearing it on themselves. Those women were so eager to help it was sickening. My guess is, this wasn’t the first time they’ve told someone to break the law. They appeared to be pretty adept at it.
dayum!! beck is one powerful dude. like a jedi master manipulating the force to wreak havoc on the sith. kewel.
That’s what he said a few months back - let’s see what he has to say next week AFTER his office gets bombarded with phone calls/faxes/emails....Turn up the heat!
Obviously, ACORN needs more funds for staff training.
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Conyers suggests probe of ACORN - Calls fraud charges ‘serious’
Washington Times, The (DC) - Friday, March 20, 2009
Author: S.A. Miller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
In an startling partisan shift, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. on Thursday proposed holding hearings on claims the liberal activist group ACORN engaged in a pattern of crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style “protection” racket.
Mr. Conyers , Michigan Democrat and fierce partisan, suggested a congressional probe after scathing testimony about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) during a hearing on various voting issues related to the 2008 presidential election.
Mr. Conyers called the accusations “a pretty serious matter.”
“I think that it would be something that would be worth our time,” he said during Thursday's hearing. “We've never had one person representing ACORN before the committee. ... I think in all fairness we ought to really examine it”
The testimony by Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh accused the nonprofit group of violating tax, campaign-finance and other laws by, among other things, sharing with the Barack Obama campaign a list of the Democrat's maxed-out campaign donors so ACORN could use it to solicit them for a get-out-the-vote drive.
She also testified that the Democrat-allied group provided liberal causes with protest-for-hire services and coerced donations from targets of demonstrations through a shakedown it called the “muscle for the money” program.
Ms. Heidelbaugh, a member of the executive committee of the Republican National Lawyers Association, spearheaded an unsuccessful lawsuit last year seeking a court injunction in Pennsylvania against ACORN’s voter-registration drive for the 2008 presidential campaign. She appeared as a witness at the request of Republican committee members.
Mr. Conyers , who is known for his drive to continue investigating the Bush administration, previously defended ACORN. In October, he condemned an FBI voter fraud investigation targeting the group. He questioned whether it was politically motivated to hamper a voter-registration drive targeting groups likely to support Mr. Obama ‘s candidacy.
But Mr. Conyers ‘ shift was met by resistance from fellow Democrats on the committee, and it was unclear whether a hearing would be scheduled.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties that hosted Thursday's hearing, suggested there was not enough “credible evidence” to warrant a hearing focused exclusively on ACORN.
Rep. Melvin Watt said he would concede that ACORN and some of its members engaged in voter fraud. But he said voter fraud was already covered by existing law and Congress has not further role in the matter.
“I'm not coming to a hearing to have a trial on ACORN. That's not my job,” the North Carolina Democrat said.
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Good. It should be tried repeatedly at all their offices. There should be observers turning in their crooks on the street too.
Why were they fired, but not prosecuted?
PINGING THE COMRADES.......thanks to maggief for posting this info!
So 25% of ACORN staff are okay with helping bring sex slaves into the US? Ain’t that awesome. Sounds like a fine upstanding organization to me.
I’m sure they were the only two employees who did something like that.
I’m also sure that a bunny will come visit me in the spring bringing chocolate eggs.
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LOL! Covering their bu**s! They are still going to be
under fire for this as how many times before this has
Acorn helped with illegals illegally?
Thanks, Glenn Beck!
Been here...and done it before.
Time is wasting....and the people are getting sick of it!
MOLON LABE
Alice Cooper “Under my wheels”
My head is spinning,,,,,,,,I’m sure this is just the itty bitty tip of the iceberg, imagine how many things we don’t know....
This will be the sum total of the fallout from this incident.
If they’ve been fired, that’s a start. Now they need to go to prison. They were too glib during the entire process; it’s obviously not the first time this has happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmYm9TGrKPM&feature=channel_page
Listen to Glenn Becks producer in L.A.
Van Jones has probably already hired them.
For tax preparation only, I believe all that is required is a weekend training session at your local H & R Block, and an e-File number with the IRS, which is not difficult to obtain.
"Billion Dollar Babies".....
..and the taxes?
There were some comments on the Glenn Beck after-show ‘chat’ indicating that Steve King (R-Iowa) was opening an investigation into ACORN...anyone else heard about this?
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